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With a Fresh Lemon Scent

let there be sound!

mood: grateful

music: Craig Rubano -- Just One of Those Things

I never realized how much I'm grateful for being able to listen to music while on my machine at work. Without music to block out background conversations, etc., it's harder to concentrate. Plus, music can lift my spirits sometimes, if a particularly good bit comes on.

The department's tech support people installed a new kernel on my box sometime over the weekend, so when I sat down to work on Monday morning, no sound came out. I have spent the last three days iterating with the tech people to get the problem fixed. Finally, they just threw up their hands and decided to roll back the kernel to the previous version. I'm annoyed that I'm being used a guinea pig for their experimental updates, but I'm grateful that we were able to fix it and now...I can listen to music...

It took me a couple of readings to figure out that you were, in fact, you.And I was considering it the irony of the electronic age that husband and wife are posting in each other's blogs rather than talking...

Yes, that occurred to me, too, but sometimes you want to take one of those little breaks while working and go check your flist and then you discover something you want to comment on and it would take a whole lot longer to get up from your desk, walk over two cubicles, break your spouse's train of thought, get him to turn off his headphones, and start talking about a blog entry he'd made six hours ago. It's so much more efficient to just post a reply on the blog, and when he gets around to wanting to take one of those little breaks while working and go check his flist and discover something that he wants to comment on, he just does it, instead of getting up from his desk, walking over two cubicles, breaking my train of thought, getting me to turn off my headphones, and starting to talk about a blog post I made thirty minutes ago.